tigger22472
Senior Member
What is the name of your state? Indiana
In June of 2002 my husband had a diving accident in which he hit his head and proceeded to break 5 bones in his neck(with MANY misaligned) and his left wrist. He also had 60% spinal cord damage. Beteen 2 hospitals he spent 6.5 weeks in the hospital and was told he'd never walk again but he walked out of that last one. From the beginning I kept asking about the head injury and was blown off by everyone telling me the neck was the most important thing.. this was even after the surgery and halo was done so there was nothing more to do for the neck. The only thing I was ever told was that the way he was acting at the time was 'normal'. Since then there's been only a few problems, or so we thought. Soon after the accident he went to his doctor and talked about the migraines he was having (granted this was a new family doctor but he'd been fully informed of his accident and had the records from it). Without doing any tests the doctor put him on migraine medicine. Over the past few months his balance has been a little more off and although I was concerned he wasn't. A few weeks ago he woke up and had three big scabs on one of his arms and a big scrape on his back on that side but said he didn't know what happened. I thought it was odd he didn't know but heck we all run into things and have a bruise or something and don't remember.
On Monday morning I came home from taking my step-daughter to school and went into the bedroom to talk to him and as I was getting ready to leave the room as he was sleeping he turned and proceeded to have a grand mal seizure. This is the first one that we are aware of. At the hospital a CAT scan was taken and the doctor said the spot in which he hit his head in 2002 was noticable and that it's a 'PRIME" spot to cause seizures. They put him on meds and yesterday we had the MRI and today is the EEG. He's had a few CAT scans before but only of his neck and I know the MRI's he had done were ONLY within the first week and a half of the accident.... I've looked through ALL the records and he's NEVER had an EEG.
From the research I've done he's quite possibly had small seizures before this and not known it.. yet his complaint of migraines was a 'tell tell' sign of things.
He sees a neurologist on the 24th and he says that if he finds out that he's been having seizures and that no measures were taken even after I continually questioned them that he wants to sue. Is this possible to win in anyway?
(TIA... sorry it's so long)
In June of 2002 my husband had a diving accident in which he hit his head and proceeded to break 5 bones in his neck(with MANY misaligned) and his left wrist. He also had 60% spinal cord damage. Beteen 2 hospitals he spent 6.5 weeks in the hospital and was told he'd never walk again but he walked out of that last one. From the beginning I kept asking about the head injury and was blown off by everyone telling me the neck was the most important thing.. this was even after the surgery and halo was done so there was nothing more to do for the neck. The only thing I was ever told was that the way he was acting at the time was 'normal'. Since then there's been only a few problems, or so we thought. Soon after the accident he went to his doctor and talked about the migraines he was having (granted this was a new family doctor but he'd been fully informed of his accident and had the records from it). Without doing any tests the doctor put him on migraine medicine. Over the past few months his balance has been a little more off and although I was concerned he wasn't. A few weeks ago he woke up and had three big scabs on one of his arms and a big scrape on his back on that side but said he didn't know what happened. I thought it was odd he didn't know but heck we all run into things and have a bruise or something and don't remember.
On Monday morning I came home from taking my step-daughter to school and went into the bedroom to talk to him and as I was getting ready to leave the room as he was sleeping he turned and proceeded to have a grand mal seizure. This is the first one that we are aware of. At the hospital a CAT scan was taken and the doctor said the spot in which he hit his head in 2002 was noticable and that it's a 'PRIME" spot to cause seizures. They put him on meds and yesterday we had the MRI and today is the EEG. He's had a few CAT scans before but only of his neck and I know the MRI's he had done were ONLY within the first week and a half of the accident.... I've looked through ALL the records and he's NEVER had an EEG.
From the research I've done he's quite possibly had small seizures before this and not known it.. yet his complaint of migraines was a 'tell tell' sign of things.
He sees a neurologist on the 24th and he says that if he finds out that he's been having seizures and that no measures were taken even after I continually questioned them that he wants to sue. Is this possible to win in anyway?
(TIA... sorry it's so long)